CII Best Practices Guide: Improving Project Performance, Version 5.0

The Best Practice Implementation Assessment process involves the comparison of organizational needs, processes, procedures, and practices against the requirements of CII Best Practices, as provided in the checklists available in this publication.

For example, the CII Implementation Thermometer provides a quick assessment process that is specific to CII implementation issues. This tool can be utilized to ascertain the overall status on the organization’s use of the CII implementation process. Using the results of this assessment, implementers can identify the areas needing more attention and perform any additional detailed analysis necessary. (IR166-3, p. 8)

See “Implementation Tools” for more information on tools provided by this research.

• Provides material for each of the current CII Best Practices, including:
  • CII definition and basic elements 
  • Implementation Self-assessment form
  • CII Implementation Model – Describes the nine steps of the model to assist with your organization’s implementation effort.
  • 10 Stages to Implementation Success – Developed to provide clarity on the overall stages of an implementation process.
  • Use of the Self-assessment Guide – Developed to facilitate implementation of Best Practices. The assessment scores may be used to evaluate projects at many points during its cycle. Regardless of the frequency of the evaluations, the results may be compared among projects as long as the scoring guidance is consistent among the projects being compared and the project parameters are reasonably similar.